Entitled “Never a Dull Moment”, the book is a massive 450 pages and an interesting and lively read.

Mr Dulhunty tells of his time during occupation in Japan, air crashes, imprisonment, and adventures most of us would be fearful of.

At 86 he still works at his various companies, and enjoys every moment. It is a wonderful story of an endearing, lively and exciting man.

And Mr Dulhunty's involvement in the Australian flying boat community, together with a couple of other local flying boat owners, has resulted in him planning a "splash down" or convention of float planes on Wallaga Lake this March.

Pilots and plane owners are expected to fly in from around the country.

His own bright yellow Cessna 180 float plane is a regular site on Lake Corunna over the Christmas holidays and other times when he and his wife Lenore fly down from their Sydney home.

A misadventure with one of his previous float planes is covered in a chapter of his book.

Mr and Mrs Dulhunty in 1997 narrowly escaped with their lives when the plane on take off from Tilba Lake was caught in a downdraft crashing into the waves near 1080 Beach.

This month his plane came due to its annual service and getting the plane up from Merimbula Lake onto land and into an airport hangar turned out to be another minor adventure requiring a crane and the closing down of the airport for the duration of the operation.

Philip Dulhunty’s autobiography covers his ancestral connections with Dubbo, time at Admiralty House, Yarralumla and his service with the Australian Army in New Guinea as well as the 18 months he spent in Hiroshima with the occupation force post the atom bomb.

The cover of his book features a photograph of Mr Dulhunty standing in the ruins of the flattened Japanese city.

"Never a Dull Moment" also details his involvement with a Japanese spy plane that crash landed after scouting Sydney harbour for the subsequent midget submarine attack, which he also witnessed, actually taking a pot shot at the sub with a .22 rifle.