Thread: Minus spotting scopes

So the old's have purchased their retirement home looking over the sea and want to have something to have a gander with. Just for seeing if boats are catching, what the orcas are doing, looking through neighbors windows. You know that sort of thing haha. So doesn't have to be best optics for first and last light. Just something with a good zoom and a nice clear picture.
Saw the konus and thought it might suit ok.
Any thoughts or other options. At a guess I would say under a grand would be absolute top dollar more like 500 to 800
Cheers