HydaShop was born not from a business plan, but from a weekend we’ll never forget.

It was a late Saturday afternoon, and the whole gang had come back to Murrieta for a birthday—something we’d done every year since high school. A little tradition that stuck, even after we all left for college in different cities.

That evening, between laughs and old stories, things got real — college, breakups, pressure, and all the mess in between.

Someone said, “Let’s go to the beach. Not tomorrow. Now.”

So we jumped in an old car, turned the music up, and drove west toward the coast—chasing something we couldn’t name, but somehow knew we needed.

That night, standing by the ocean with salt in our hair and sand between our toes without talking too much, it reminded us of something simple: the ocean heals.

And somehow, we didn’t want that feeling to fade the next morning. We wonder if there was a way to take that feeling with us. To wrap it up and bring it into everyday life, even just a little?

That’s when the idea came. Of all the things we carried that day, it was what we wore — light, relaxed, easy — that stayed with us. It felt like the moment itself. So, Hydashop was born, beginning with a straightforward goal: creating beachwear and summer essentials that could hold that same energy. Freedom. Ease. And the kind of comfort that stays with you, long after you’ve washed off the sand.