The second time we went up to Tallahassee to get funding for manatees, we finally knew that we had broken through when a couple of the representatives says, we knew you’d be back, ’cause you said you were gonna be back, we said yeah, we’re back. ‘Cause we need more funding. We said we did. And it really has kept up the pace that they know us now. They know that we’ve performed, like we said we were, that we’ve spent the taxpayer’s money wisely. And so it’s great. We’re reaping the benefits of all that. But that starts with the guy in your local community that goes, yeah, man, I was at the zoo with my family.
