David's Jeep Site

These pictures are from 1999, when we went with some friends of ours on a Carnival Cruise. Our cruise was on the Fantasy cruise ship. The itenerary included Key West, Cayman Islands, Cozumel, and New Orleans. This was a 7 day cruise. We had a lot of fun. I noticed that in Cozumel they had a "Jeep Jungle Adventure", I had to go! First, I wanted to know if they were REAL jeeps and if so, I thought it would be a great experience. We didn't take a whole lot of pics, however, here is what we did take.
Here is a shot of the caravan of jeeps that were headed out on the "Jungle Adventure". this was taken after reaching what used to be a limerock quarry. Just outside of Cozumel.	Here are some friends of ours that we went on the cruise with. Notice their colorful jeep. The theme is purely Mexican. This was as we were leaving to head back to the ship.
This another shot of the caravan of jeeps as the road meandered through the quarry and the surrounding jungle. We were headed to a beach where we got on a boat and went to an island for a mexican style bar-b-que. It wasn't very good, plus it rained and made everyone miserable.	Here we actually got to go through some mud and water. There were a couple of places like this. Actually I hit the skid plate over the gas tank on some rocks at one point as we went through a flooded section of trail that had some fairly large rocks underneath the water. The Mexican trail guides didn't want anyone really playing in the water, because they were afraid we were going to hydo-lock the engines. Although they didn't know my friend Bill (the guy driving in picture above) and I were jeep owners and we were experienced off-roaders.
Here we are as we were leaving the pier from the ship and were headed to the jungle. We meandered through Cozumel (seen here) where there seems to be no seatbelt laws or speed laws as the seat belts didn't work and we went flying down the roads (very little signage). We were led through the non-tourist section of Cozumel and out to the jungle. Let me tell you, it was an experience!	Some additional notes. All the jeeps were bone stock YJs, they did have a few Geo Trackers. My friend owns a 86CJ7 and I own a 97TJ. We really missed our rigs, it would have been great to have driven our own here. We could have played in the water and mud. Most if not all of the tourist on the ride seemed to have no experience driving jeeps. There were some who were doing doughnuts and were being very dangerous. If anyone goes to Cozumel and takes this shore excursion, please keep it in mind, they seem to have a disregard for safe driving of the jeep as well as safety equipment functionality. As I mentioned before, our seatbelts didn't work. Also at the time we went, it was $75(US) per person. Of course as is typical of any Mexican excursion, tips are expected! If you have any questions,

These pictures are from 1999, when we went with some friends of ours on a Carnival Cruise. Our cruise was on the Fantasy cruise ship. The itenerary included Key West, Cayman Islands, Cozumel, and New Orleans. This was a 7 day cruise. We had a lot of fun. I noticed that in Cozumel they had a "Jeep Jungle Adventure", I had to go! First, I wanted to know if they were REAL jeeps and if so, I thought it would be a great experience. We didn't take a whole lot of pics, however, here is what we did take.

Here is a shot of the caravan of jeeps that were headed out on the "Jungle Adventure". this was taken after reaching what used to be a limerock quarry. Just outside of Cozumel.

Here are some friends of ours that we went on the cruise with. Notice their colorful jeep. The theme is purely Mexican. This was as we were leaving to head back to the ship.

This another shot of the caravan of jeeps as the road meandered through the quarry and the surrounding jungle. We were headed to a beach where we got on a boat and went to an island for a mexican style bar-b-que. It wasn't very good, plus it rained and made everyone miserable.

Here we actually got to go through some mud and water. There were a couple of places like this. Actually I hit the skid plate over the gas tank on some rocks at one point as we went through a flooded section of trail that had some fairly large rocks underneath the water. The Mexican trail guides didn't want anyone really playing in the water, because they were afraid we were going to hydo-lock the engines. Although they didn't know my friend Bill (the guy driving in picture above) and I were jeep owners and we were experienced off-roaders.

Here we are as we were leaving the pier from the ship and were headed to the jungle. We meandered through Cozumel (seen here) where there seems to be no seatbelt laws or speed laws as the seat belts didn't work and we went flying down the roads (very little signage). We were led through the non-tourist section of Cozumel and out to the jungle. Let me tell you, it was an experience!

Some additional notes. All the jeeps were bone stock YJs, they did have a few Geo Trackers. My friend owns a 86CJ7 and I own a 97TJ. We really missed our rigs, it would have been great to have driven our own here. We could have played in the water and mud. Most if not all of the tourist on the ride seemed to have no experience driving jeeps. There were some who were doing doughnuts and were being very dangerous. If anyone goes to Cozumel and takes this shore excursion, please keep it in mind, they seem to have a disregard for safe driving of the jeep as well as safety equipment functionality. As I mentioned before, our seatbelts didn't work. Also at the time we went, it was $75(US) per person. Of course as is typical of any Mexican excursion, tips are expected! If you have any questions,