Guild Wars 2

While trying to dig a sand pile in Quest “Help Mei Shadowwalker Reclaim the Wiley Pirate Treasure,” in Glendarran Fields, I get told that I cant’ do this w/o a shovel when my toon in fact has a shovel.

See attached screenshot.

While you do have a shovel equipped, hitting your interact key is not how you dig the hole, just how you are informed of needing a shovel for the hole. You have 3 skills on your weapon skill bar when you have a shovel equipped, I believe the third one (with an image of a hole being dug on it) actually digs the hole you are near and it should mention this in its tooltip. The other two are offensive uses for the shovel.