West Coast again and again

Ok where to start. We did three attempts on the west coast to get on with our circumnavigation.This photo is taken on the northernmost point. Do it looks like the waves aren't that big it was big and came out of nothing smashing on to the reef and no gap between the waves we could use to go out. We could not go around the Doughboy's safely so we went back and because we ran out of water we had to paddle back 30 km. Later we learned that this point is hard to go around and certainly not met Bft 5 . Will be followed ...............