From a young family looking down the barrel of Japanese invasion to the Battle of the Coral Sea to the soldier's campaign to current trekking, this album is the story of Kokoda Trail accompanied by 400 images spanning the past sixty years.

Reading this makes your legs grow weary as if you had just climbed the 'Golden Stairs' or the nine false peaks of the Maguli Range. You feel the mud between your toes and imagine the taste of acrid cordite atop Butchers Hill or in the the dark, dank, dripping depths of Eora Creek. Combining the best Kokoda writers with personal pictures of the track, this collection demonstrates the utter waste and sheer strength of spirit that kept Australia safe during those bleak hours of 1942.

A detailed overview, this compilation identifies specific battalion movements during gruelling engagements, revises military decisions, diseases contracted on the track, the fuzzy wuzzy angels and describes the trail through the eyes of someone who has trekked what has become known as, 'the ultimate military obstacle course'.

In this album there are 10 A3 size pages to hold 120 personal photos for when you walk 'The Bloody Track'.

Bob spent 41 years living at McDonald’s Corner at the Moresby end of the Kokoda Trail.

The corner is named after his father P.J. who in 1941 had acquired some virgin jungle called Ilolo where he started planting rubber trees. There was no ‘corner’ in 1942, it was just a road-head where the walking track to Kokoda commenced.

The 8 kilometre road to the plantation, which PJ built by hand, was of great strategic importance when the Kokoda campaign commenced. P.J. refused to be evacuated and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the field, at age 52 (he was ex Gallipoli) with ANGAU, and stayed for the duration of the war at McDonald’s Corner.

Bob’s childhood was alive with the ‘real’ toys of war. Tommy gun, Japanese woodpecker and type 99 light machine gun, 303’s and a 45 pistol, all which were ‘sort of aimed’ and fired regularly. Each Christmas holidays a whole box of 303 ammunition was put through the barrels.

Bob took over the property in 1967 and operated it until being acquired under the Acquisition Act in 1980. After settling amicably with the local Kioari people, he moved to the Sunshine Coast where he happily pursues all manner of odd opportunities.

He walked the Trail last December with his son and nephew, who kept asking probing questions. To answer these satisfactorily he has produced this Kokoda Trail-McDonald’s Corner album, which covers all aspects of the Kokoda Campaign and has room for 120 photos for those who have walked The Bloody Track.

RSL clubs are acquiring the Album, displaying it in a timber/glass case and turning a page each week.