Roadhouse Madness - The Insane Things That Happen In The Middle Of Nowhere

Rob Copper here and I'm about to take a very remote road down to a very remote beach, supposedly incredibly beautiful, but first, before I do that, I'm going to talk to Tyson. He's going to tell us a little bit about life in the outback and the conditions of the road and all sorts of things. There's some crazy stuff that happens out here that you may not believe. All right, Tyson, tell me about what's going on out here. Well, it gets very interesting out here some days. We go to a lot of car crashes, we go rescue a lot of animals and there is a lot of people who breaks down. A lot of people get stuck down at the beach where this gentleman is going to go down. Hopefully I don't have to rescue him. And the baby kangaroos, we get a lot of. We get a lot of people falling asleep behind the wheel. We go to car crashes at 2am in the morning, midnight, any time. We help a lot of people. I've been living in the bush for about five and a half years and I've probably seen half of my life gone with car crashes. A lot of people. Lost my best mate. That was Boxing Day. Sorry that one's a bit hard for me to talk about. We just try to look after each other out there. So if you ever drive the Nullarbor, please look after each other. If you're tired, please pull over. That's good advice. Tell me about the people you've rescued out on this track here. So people don't go down with the proper recovery gear. We had a lady with just a nylon rope thinking that was recovery gear, got down there, and she gave us nylon rope. It did not work, so I had to use my own four-wheel drive, my own recovery gear. We pulled her out, but she was stuck down there for three days. We have had staff members stuck down there. We've had to search and rescue them They were stuck out there for three days. It was 47 degrees. They were dehydrated. So please make sure you take enough water food Anytime I'll be happy to rescue people Now tell me there's been some really horrific accidents along this highway, is that correct? Yes in my five years I've seen probably about 300 different crashes out there Trucks going on trucks, trucks going through cars, trucks going on head-on cars. Some crashes, you don't even recognize people who is in the car anymore. We get the RDF out here quite a lot, so please give them a donation and help them. They are our life support out here. And that's the Royal Flying Doctors, for any of you that may not know. Yes. And they're a very essential part of helping people in these very remote regions. Yes, definitely. People don't realize, the people in the city don't realize how much work they actually do. Once a month they come out for medical checks for all the roadhouses. That's the only way we can see doctors for our doctor's appointments once a month. Yeah, so they're crucial. Yes. Crucial. our main life support or our other help is three hours this way three hours that way and you actually get called to assist the police and and the ambos right if something goes wrong yes so i go after our phone and if there's a car crash from the police will call me 2 a.m 1 a.m whenever fires i get a call from firefighters saying can you please close the road we try to help each over here yeah that's good i mean you really need to because as as people might already know or they may not know there are not a lot of people out here no so in this little community there's 14 staff members and probably six people in the station that's our whole town yeah that's the entire town yeah so you could put everybody in this town in one room pretty much we get a lot backpackers working here, but there is three of us who's been here for a long time. We're the ones who keeps the Roadhouse going. Never a dull moment out here sounds like. No, they told me when I started out here five years ago, they told me the day will not be the same. I did not believe them. I do believe them now. Every day is different. But you also have good times as far as like rescuing wildlife, little kingfishers and things like that, right? I love when people bring in baby kangaroos in because I've got a little backyard and they would stay in there we'll look after them feed them and we'll try to get them to Kalgo or Esperance it just depends what breed they are if they are a red kangaroo they'll go Kalgoorl if they are a brown they'll go Esperance okay is that because they specialize in certain sort of ruins yes so past the fence line is mainly all reds down this end there's mainly all grays you actually get planes and helicopters stopping in here yes we do um so if you're on a plane please land say hello come fill up have a good yarn have some food we have had helicopters airplanes uh gyrocopters that was probably the most interesting one because they only can go 100k's and they have to land and refuel gyrocopters i would highly recommend for people to stop and see a plane landing here so you have jet fuel here we got jet 1a fuel so the police helicopters can land here um so if they have to do a big rescue down at the beach they can just refill without bothering about going to Kalgoorlie or Esperance all roadhouses have jet one okay it's good to know and there's one of the helicopters that dropped by this is a 30 million dollar helicopter that landed here and did he fuel up yep And then he was on his way. Pretty much. Sometimes you get some events here like generator fires and there's not much you can do. You can't put an extinguisher, you just gotta let them burn. Here's one of the four-wheel drive rescues. This guy's buried in pretty deep. Another visitor fueling up. For a while he even had a pet crow. You never know who might decide to literally drop in here at the roadhouse. Because the roadhouses are the only spot for oftentimes 100 kilometers or more in any direction. They are popular stops, and the lodging is often booked solid for the night. Make sure you enjoy Charlock Lake, because it's the most beautiful spot in WA. Wow, did you hear that? The most beautiful spot in WA? That's some pretty high praise right there. I guess I gotta go. And go I would. After talking with Tyson, I was convinced that this would be quite an adventure to a remote and beautiful place that few people ever get to see. But things weren't to turn out as I'd hoped or expected. Something was going to go tragically wrong on my journey to Twilight Cove. The entire ordeal of how a four-wheel drive adventure turned into a survival situation on the most remote of beaches is coming up in another video. Thanks for watching my interview with Tyson at Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, deep in the Western Australia outback. Don't forget to give me a like on the video, share, and subscribe. Until next time, this is the Rockhopper. I'll see ya.