About Me and Cooeee

I sat on Avoca Beach, a beautiful surf beach about an hour and a half north of Sydney Australia watching kids, along with my own, playing on the water’s edge.  Some kids were wearing hats, some weren’t. What they were all doing though was squinting their eyes against the blazing sun that shone down on their faces and reflected off the water into their eyes.  I like many parents didn’t always find it easy to get my kids to wear a hat or sunglasses but I knew how important it was for my family to have excellent protection from the sun’s damaging UV rays.  I thought, what if the kids had sun protection that was fun to wear and they wanted to wear?  The Cooeee hat was born.

One of my favorite moments while developing Cooeee hat was the day I took my hats to a pre-school on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.  I watched the kids lining up with excitement to take turns wearing my hat.  They loved the colored lenses and the sense of adventure they felt wearing my hat. 20 kids running around wearing my hat with beaming smiles across their faces, priceless!

Sincerely,

Kylie Robinson

Cooeee designer and owner

Wife and mother of three